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LIST OF HOLDINGS

Updated 16 Dec 2008

Please be advised that some of these records may not be made available for privacy reasons.

There are other records besides the ones listed here

 

Business records Community Associations Friendly Societies' records Hospitals and nursing homes
Kindergartens and pre-schools
Miscellaneous Music & Theatre Associations Private papers
School records Societies and Clubs Sporting Clubs

Organisations

Record category and date range


Community groups



Aberfeldie Men's Club
  • Monthly journal Aberfeldie Community Centre
                    Vol 1 No 6   Sep 1949 
                    Vol 2 No 3   Apr  1950  
                    Vol 2 No 8   Sep 1950 
                    Vol 2 No 9   Oct  1950  
                    Vol 4 No 4   Jun  1952   

Ascot Vale Peoples' Association

  • Minute Books, 1897-1908

Community of Essendon Action Supporting the Environment (CEASE Inc)

  • Records, 1989-1997

Clifton Park Committee of Management

  • Minutes and Constitution, 1987-1994

Essendon & District Returned Services Club

  • Minutes 1964-1969

Essendon Branch Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League of Australia (RSSAILA)

  • Minutes 1922-1947

Essendon Citizens' Advice Bureau

  • Annual Reports, 1970-1973, 1976-78, 1981-1993, 1996-1997

Essendon City & District Branch of the Sailors & Soldiers Fathers' Association of Victoria

  • Minutes, 1919-1923

Essendon City War Widows Homes League

  • Minutes, 1919-1923

Essendon Community Centre


Essendon Red Cross

  • Minutes 1967-1986
  • Membership List 1941-1959

Keilor East Pre-School & Community Centre see Niddrie Pre-School & Community Centre



Maribyrnong Park Committee of Management

  • Minutes, 1961-1974; correspondence

Niddrie Pre-School and Community Centre

  • Papers, 1955-1987

Niddrie West Essendon Community Group,

  • Minutes, correspondence and news clippings, 1993-2006  

North West Branch of the National Trust,

  • Minutes, correspondence and newsclippings, 1997-2003

Strathmore Community Group

  • Records, 1949-1984



Kindergartens and pre-schools

Keilor East Pre-School & Community Centre  see Niddrie Pre-School & Community Centre
Moonee Ponds Free Kindergarten
  • Minutes and Correspondence, 1951-1975
  • Moonee Ponds Pre-school Minutes, 1972-1981
Niddrie Pre-School and Community Centre
  • Papers, 1955-1987


Societies and Clubs


Essendon & District Horticulture & Garden Improvement Society

  • Minutes, 1932-1935, 1930-1939
  • Petty cash 1932-1960

Lizards Club

  • Minutes, 1950-1978; regalia, ephemera

Essendon Toc H Boys Club

  • Gym Club Contest Book, 1964-1989
  • Minutes Book, 1976-1991
  • Club Records, 1954-1971
  • Club Rules, 1949-1954, Members, 1949-52

Sporting Clubs



Essendon Club

  • Annual Reports, 1916-17 to 1945-46, 1947-48 to 1951-52, 1953-54, 1957-58 to1971-72, 1973-74 to 1990-91
  • Minutes 1913-1921

Essendon Croquet Club

  • Account Book, 1911 -1949

Essendon Football Club

  • Annual Reports, seasons 1948, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1983
  • Social Club Reports, 1982
  • Second 18 Annual Reports, season 1954, 1956
  • Third 18 Annual Reports, season 1958
  • Interstate Football Match program, 1961
  • Centenary Dinner Program, 1972
  • Memorandum & Articles of Association, 1951
  • Kia-Ora Sports Parade program, 1952

Essendon Gun Club

  • Cash Book, 1913-1916

Whippet racing, mainly Flemington running grounds

  • news cuttings, 1924-1926



Theatre and Music Associations

Full list of programs

Butler Dance Arts Studio


Cid Ellwood Operatic Productions


Debney Park Theatre Company

  • Theatre programs, 1973, 1975

Eastman, Miss Alyse (Mrs Ralph)

  • Theatre programs (no date)

Essendon Choral Society

  • Theatre programs

Essendon City Band

  • Minutes Books, 1949-1956, 1962-1974 (incomplete), 1980-81 (incomplete), 1981-1984

Essendon Community Amateur Theatre

  • Theatre programs

Essendon Community Arts Theatre

  • Theatre programs

Essendon Euphonic Players

  • Theatre programs 1934

Essendon High School

  • Theatre programs

Essendon High School Ex-Students Dramatic Club

  • Theatre programs 1933

Essendon Music for the People

  • Theatre programs

Essendon Operatic & Choral Society

  • Theatre programs 1924-1940

Essendon Society of the Arts

  • Theatre programs 1966-1968

Essendon Theatre Company

  • Theatre programs

Jubilee Players

  • Theatre programs 1936

Niddrie High School

  • Theatre programs 1977-1978

Northern Light Opera Company

  • Theatre programs 1946-1953

Rotoract Club Essendon

  • Theatre programs

Rudnytsky, Roman

  • Theatre programs

St John's Presbyterian Church

  • Theatre programs

St Vincents' Players

  • Theatre programs

Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group

  • Theatre programs

Vincentian Players

  • Theatre programs



Business papers


Blumfield's Real Estate Agency, 131 Union Rd, Ascot Vale

  • Correspondence, 1904 -1906
  • Property Register, 1904-1905

Devon Dairy, Mt Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds milk bar

  • Cash Book, 1930-1931

Hanna, H G, Real Estate Agent

  • Property Register, 1894-1896
  • Property Register, 1909-1911 (taken over by Percy Judd)
  • Land for sale, Essendon, Ascot Vale, Moonee pOnds, Newmarket, commenced 23 Nov 1899

Hodgins Nurseries

  • Trees, Shrubs & Hardy Plants catalogues, 1940, 1953, two with no dates, probably 1950s.

Judd, Percy, Real Estate, 421 Mt Alexander Rd, Moonee Ponds

  • Rent Book, 1906-1911 - Indexed
  • Property Register, 1905-1912
Schofield, J, and Co
  • Ledger, 1863.  Swan & Madeline St, Carlton



School records


Essendon High School

  • Annual Speech Night Programs, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1966,1967, 1969
  • Athletics   Sports program, 1957 
  • Interhouse Athletic program, 1954 
  • Jubilee celebrations, invitation & program, 1963 
  • Song book, no date  
  • Swimming Sports programs, 1955, 1958 
  • Year Books, 1938, 1948, 1950, 1953,  1955-1959, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972-1975
Essendon North Primary School
  • Year books, The Entertainer,  1984-1986. 1987-1988, 1989, 1993, and 1996
  • Annual report, 1995

Essendon Technical School

  • News clippings, 1935-1970
  • Greendale Project report, 1987
  • Handbook, 1984-85
  • Staff Information, 1977 - 1981
  • Year Books, Vulcan, 1939, 1941, 1948-1951, 1960, 1964-1968, 1972, 1981-1984, 1987, 1990-91, 1938-1988 anniversary edition

Lowther Hall Church of England Girls Grammar

  • Annual, The Chronicle, 1972-1975
Metropolitan High School  Sports Association  
  • 28th Annual Athletic Sports Meeting, 1947
  • 1st Annual Athletic Sports Meeting program, 1955
           [I know, it doesn't make any sense!]

Niddrie Secondary College

  • Yearbooks, Aquila, 1994, 1996, 1998-2005

Niddrie Technical School

  • Yearbooks Aquila, 1964-1983, 1985-1990, 1992
Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School 
  • Yearbooks, 1988, 1989 

Penleigh Presbyterian Ladies' College

  • Yearbook, Black Watch, 1966, 1976
St Columba's College
  • Yearbooks, 1962, 1964, 1966



Private papers


Baillie, Catherine

  • Private papers

Beckton, V, M

  • Private papers

Buckland family

  • Photograph albums
Conning, Graham
  • Terminal report, 1931 [ie, last school report] 

Essendon Historical Society - Bicentennial 1988 Oral Histories:

  • Basford, Ern
  • Clift, J J
  • Coldrey, Ernest Alan
  • Ely, Eileen
  • Harris, Ethel
  • Jopson, Elsa
  • McDonald, Minnie
  • Murphy, Laurence Arthur
  • Pemberthy, Gladys
  • St Columban priests
  • Sutherland, Dr
  • Sutherland, J A
  • Webster, George H
  • Young, Ivy

Evans, John, Lt- Colonel 

  • Diary, 1916 [published]

Marmion - Merrifield

  • Family tree

Merrifield, Sam

  • In Memorium Book, 1982
  • Journal of a trip around WA 1970, NSW & QLD 1972, Coolangatta 1973

Merrifield, Sam senior

  • Time account, 1882-1889 carpenter/builder

Merrifield, Sam senior

  • Account notebook of the goldfields, 1858
Wilson, Douglas
  • Pupil record book, Essendon High School, 1930-1934  



Hospitals and nursing homes


Essendon & District Memorial Hospital

  • Annual Reports, 1976, 1978, 1980-1983

Gladswood Home

  • Annual Reports, 1966, 1968, 1970-72, 1974, 1979-80, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998



Friendly Societies' records


Essendon Australian Natives Association (ANA)

  • Minutes, 1888-1893

Independent Order of Rechabites Essendon Branch (IOR)

  • Pledge Book, 1882 –1909, 1892-1937
  • Minutes 1882-1891, 1902-1928 Indexed

Independent Order of Rechabites Queen of Essendon Tent Junior Rechabites (IOR)

  • Minutes books, 1921-1926
  • Accounts, 1921-31 includes membership roll

Loyal Albert Lodge, Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ascot Vale  (MUIOOF)

  • Minutes Books 1958-1982, 1991-2001
  • Social Committee Minutes 1946-1961
  • Hall Fund 1966-1986
  • Social Club cash book 1950-1973



Miscellaneous


Melbourne Olympics,

  • Memorabilia, 1956

Title searches by Sam Merrifield


Essendon Council streets and parks matters

  • Newspaper clippings, 1960-1963

Moonee Ponds Baby Health Centre

  • Nurses' Monthly Reports 1923-1938
  • New Baby Books 1934-1958

North West Group of Honorary Justices

  • Minutes Book, August 1962 - February 1990